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If you want to experience actual sailing and are ready to go straight onto the water, then there are plenty of ways to learn how to do it safely. The Royal Yachting Association’s Junior section provides training courses for beginners and upwards. Safety is paramount, with professional coaches helping every step of the way. The best way to get started, whether it be as a young sailor in a dinghy, or a junior rib racer in a starter powerboat, is to join a club. The RYA is the place to look, and their website is www.rya.org.uk.

Don’t think you have to be near the sea, either. In 2008 after his gold medal winning performance in Beijing, I joined Paul Goodison and a group of beginners on a lake near Sheffield, one of the most landlocked cities in the UK. There was hardly a breeze which made his ability to read the slightest of ripples even more impressive.